Conservative Legal Scholars Prefer A Liberal Supreme Court To A President Trump

“[O]n the questionable assumption that a man of his mercurial temperament and intellectual ignorance will keep to his word, influence on the courts take time, and foreign affairs and domestic crises come up immediately,” “He is wholly unfit to deal with either of these two areas. In all other matters he is deficient,”

“Trump has a terrible record on constitutional issues.

“He seeks to gut freedom of speech and constitutional property rights, and undermine constitutional constraints on executive power even more than Bush and Obama have.”

“Moreover, over the long term, a Trump victory increases the likelihood that the GOP will become a big-government xenophobic party hostile to civil liberties and opposed to most constitutional constraints on government power ― much like the far-right nationalist parties of Western Europe, whose platforms are very similar to his, such a party is likely to do far more to undermine the Constitution than even a Hillary Clinton victory.”

~ Richard Epstein, a Hoover Institution Fellow and professor at both New York University School of Law and the University of Chicago Law School